On Sunday, August 18, Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 series is delighted to host a presentation and discussion about evolution, through the study of fishes, with Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty. As with all Sundays@4 experiences, this will be free and open to the public.
Audiences can expect a short reading and presentation as well as a chance to view some deep-sea fishes and other natural history specimens from the Fish Collections at the LSU Museum of Natural Science. Dr. Chakrabarty will be signing copies of his book ‘Explaining Life Through Evolution’ which will be available for sale.
Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty is the E.K. Hunter Chair for Communication in Science Research, Professor and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. He is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He is a systematist and an ichthyologist studying the evolution and biogeography of fishes, his work has taken him to more than 35 countries around the world (including Japan, Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, Madagascar, Panama, Kuwait and the Galapagos). He has published more than 150 scientific papers and four books including most recently ‘Explaining Life Through Evolution’. He grew up in New York City, his undergraduate degree is from McGill University in Montreal (the city where he was born) and his PhD is from the University of Michigan. He is a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation, a National Geographic Certified Educator, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a TED Senior Fellow and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair. He is the Faculty Director for the LSU Center for Collaborative Knowledge and Past President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and has described more than 15 species of fishes that are new to science including cavefishes and deep-sea fishes. Learn more about him from his website www.prosanta.org or follow him on Twitter @PREAUX_FISH
